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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 04/12] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest
- To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx>
- From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:37 -0500
- Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, X86 ML <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:06:56 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>
On 01/27/2016 09:50 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
On 27/01/16 14:42, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
On Jan 26, 2016 6:16 PM, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
You go:
hvmlite_start_xen() -->
HVM stub
startup_64() | (startup_32()
Hrm, does HVMlite work well with load_ucode_bsp(), note the patches to
rebrand pv_enabled() to pv_legacy() or whatever, this PV type will not
be legacy or crap / old, so we'd need a way to catch it if we should
not use that code for this PV type. This begs the question, are you
also sure other callers in startup_32() or startup_64() might be OK as
well where previously guarded with pv_enabled() ?
Actually this call can't be used, and if early code used it prior to
setup_arch() it'd be a bug as its only properly set until later. Vetting
for correctness of all code call is still required though and perhaps we do
need something to catch now this PV type on early code such as this one if
we don't want it. From what I've gathered before on other bsp ucode we
don't want ucode loaded for PV guest types through these mechanisms.
It may help to not think of PVH/hvmlite as PV. It really is HVM with a lot
of emulated devices removed.
How does early microcode work on EFI? Does the EFI stub code have an early
microcode loading code ?
Surely the interesting comparison here is how is (early) microcode
loading disabled in KVM guests? We should use the same mechanism for
HVMlite guests.
Why would we ever want to have a guest load microcode during boot? I can
see how a (privileged) guest may want to load microcode from a shell
(via microcode driver).
-boris
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